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- From: vijay@kpc.com (Vijay Sarathy)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.graphics.opengl
- Subject: Kubota Graphics releases Dore 6.0 to Public Domain
- Date: 18 Jan 1995 22:19:16 GMT
- Organization: Kubota Graphics Corporation; Santa Clara, CA, USA
- Lines: 99
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <VIJAY.95Jan18141916@crusher.kpc.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.52.28.51
-
-
- As many of you might have heard Kubota Graphics Corporation will, for all
- practical purposes, cease engineering operations on February 1, 1995. For the
- lack of much to do here at Kubota for the past 6 months, except for putting out
- maintenance releases (ho-hum), we thought that it might be fun to put Dore' out
- on to the public domain. So we have cleaned it up a little bit, ported and made
- sure that it works on Linux, FreeBSD and NT. Today, we at Kubota Graphics are
- proud to announce Public Domain Dore' (Dore 6.0). We certainly hope that it
- will be the next big graphics API ;-) Enjoy!
-
- Vijay Sarathy
-
- --
-
- Vijay Sarathy
- Kubota Graphics Corporation
-
- e-mail: vijay@kgc.com
- voice: (408) 987-3309
-
-
- ==============================================================================
-
- Copyright Notice
- ================
-
- /**************************************************************************
- # Copyright (C) 1994 Kubota Graphics Corp.
- #
- # Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this material for
- # any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the
- # above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all
- # copies, and that the name of Kubota Graphics not be used in
- # advertising or publicity pertaining to this material. Kubota
- # Graphics Corporation MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE ACCURACY
- # OR SUITABILITY OF THIS MATERIAL FOR ANY PURPOSE. IT IS PROVIDED
- # "AS IS", WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE
- # IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
- # PURPOSE AND KUBOTA GRAPHICS CORPORATION DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES,
- # EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.
- **************************************************************************/
-
-
- Abstract of Package (submitted to sunsite)
- ===================
-
- Title: Dore' API (Dynamic Object Rendering Environment)
- Version: 6.0
- Description: Dore' is a powerful 3D graphics subroutine library.
- It provides a comprehensive set of tools for creating
- graphics applications. It is also easy to use, portable,
- and extendable. This version has interfaces/drivers to
- X11, PEX, IrisGL, OpenGL, Postscript and more. It has
- been ported onto most unix systems, including Linux and
- FreeBSD. It has also been ported to Windows NT 3.5.
- Author(s): The key authors and contributors from a long list of
- illustrious but evanescent computer companies are listed
- below:
-
- - Companies -
- Dana Computer
- Ardent Computer
- Stardent Computer
- Kubota Pacific Computer Inc.
- Kubota Graphics Corporation
-
- - Key Authors/Contributors -
- Michael Kaplan
- Mark Patrick
- Bruce Borden
- Kevin Weiler
- Dan McLachlan
- Helga Thorvaldsdottir
- Carolyn Houle
- Lori Whippler
- Steve Hollasch
- & many more
-
- - Public Domain Effort -
- Doug Ambrisko
- Larry Church
- Rita Ozanne
- Vijay Sarathy
-
- Maintained-by:
- Maintained-at: sunsite.unc.edu, ftp.cdrom.com
- Platforms: SunOS, OSF/1, Irix, Linux, FreeBSD, Windows NT
- Copying-Policy: Public Domain
- Keywords: Dore', 2D & 3D Graphics API, 3D Graphics subroutine library
-
- --
-
- Vijay Sarathy "Used-car salesman to customer: `Not only
- Kubota Graphics Corporation does it have low mileage, but most of
- that was while it was being towed.'"
- e-mail: vijay@kgc.com
- voice: (408) 987-3309 - Bob Thaves -
-
-
-
-
- From: vijay@kpc.com (Vijay Sarathy)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics
- Subject: Kubota - Dore 6.0. release (followup/clarifications)
- Date: 19 Jan 1995 18:41:30 GMT
- Organization: Kubota Graphics Corporation; Santa Clara, CA, USA
- Lines: 38
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <VIJAY.95Jan19104130@crusher.kpc.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.52.28.51
-
-
- Hi Dore' fans!
- I am really heartened by the response I got to the message I posted
- yesterday announcing the release of Dore' 6.0 from Kubota. Some clarifications
- that I thought I should make in response to the e-mail and phone calls:
-
- 1) Kubota has released the copyright to the public. So you are free to make
- modifications but cannot claim authorship. You are free to make changes
- and modifications as long as the copyright message is included.
-
- 2) Many people asked where exactly on susiste and cdrom were the files
- located. I apologize for not mentioning this earlier. Anyway, I just
- uploaded the files yesterday. The file is called:
-
- pdore-6.0.tar.Z (about 7.25 Mb)
- (about 25 Mb uncompressed)
-
- On sunsite I uploaded it to /uploads &
- on ftp.cdrom.com I uploaded it to /incoming
-
- The tar file does not have the Dore' libraries built for any system.
- It has complete sources and excellent documentation (man pages, ps
- files, troff and tools)
-
-
- Alright folks! Looks like there is a lot of interest in Dore' especially
- in Europe. I'm glad Kubota allowed us to do this. Hope all of you find it
- useful.
-
- --
-
- Vijay Sarathy "Used-car salesman to customer: `Not only
- Kubota Graphics Corporation does it have low mileage, but most of
- that was while it was being towed.'"
- e-mail: vijay@kgc.com
- voice: (408) 987-3309 - Bob Thaves -
-